Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Lucy Maud Montgomery’s life seems like a dark version of Anne’s adventures. Lucy’s mother died when Lucy was just 21 months old. As a result, she was raised by her maternal Grandparents who were very strict . . . .

Quotes about the ocean including . . . No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville

"Anybody is liable to rheumatism in her legs, Anne. It's only old people who should have rheumatism in their souls, though. Thank goodness, I never have. When you get rheumatism in your soul you might as well go and pick out your coffin."
~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery

She had lived solely for the little things of life—the things that pass—forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity, bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing from one dwelling to the other—from twilight to unclouded day.
~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery